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Grab It | S1: The Women's World Cup

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Sports Illustrated

Sports, History

4.8655 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The ’91 U.S. women’s national team pressed, always on the attack. Their playing style and their success were both unprecedented. But winning on the field was just the beginning. Now, they had to bring their relentless mentality to the fight for equality and for all of women’s sports. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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1:00.9

Back in 1991, a few months before the first women's World Cup, Michelle Akers went to a conference

1:07.7

for sports apparel companies in Arizona. Here's Caitlin Murray, author of The National Team.

1:13.7

And she gave a speech to these executives in the room,

1:17.7

basically begging them to invest in women's soccer,

1:21.0

to view women's soccer as the future of the sport

1:24.3

and actually put some money behind it.

1:27.8

Michelle Akers, not her management, not anyone from U.S. soccer, not even Anson Dorrance.

1:34.0

She took the matter into her own hands and made the case for herself and her sport.

1:39.4

And she found an audience for her message in former soccer player Mick Hoban, who is now

1:44.0

the vice president

1:44.8

of soccer promotions for Umbro.

1:46.9

He remembered having to sort of scrape by as a soccer player in the 1970s.

1:53.0

So when he listened to Michelle Akers talking about needing to kind of scrape her career together,

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